pausa Latin · revision 34534

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=Plautus (c. 250–184 BC)|origins=grc παῦσις}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpau̯.sa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpaːu̯.sa]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pausa''' ''f'' (genitive pausae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''paussa''.^(OLD 2012) A neuter ''pausum'' is found in an inscription.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|παῦσις|tr=paûsis|t=a stopping, cessation]] according to L&S, Köbler and Wiktionary,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) a noun from [[m|grc|παύω|tr=paúō|t=to stop, make cease]];^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) the OLD only compares the Greek noun.^(OLD 2012) The TLL, noting that the form does not match the Greek, prefers to see it as a back-formation from the verb [[m|la|pausō|t=to halt, cease]], although that verb is not securely attested before the 4th century.^(TLL) Beekes finds no certain cognates of the Greek verb outside Greek.^(Beekes 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''ego pausam fēcī'' “I have stopped”,^(OLD 2012) and Köbler records it in Ennius.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ L&S notes that it belongs to early and post-classical Latin, where the classical language had ''quiēs'' or ''fīnis''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used mostly in the phrases ''pausam facere'' and ''pausam dare'', to stop or to put an end to something, from Plautus, Ennius and Lucilius to Gellius and Apuleius;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius speaks of the end of life as a ''pausa''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In the language of the cult of Isis, ''pausae'' were the stations at which a procession halted.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Medieval Latin used it for rest and for a tomb.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''pause'' (early 15th century) comes partly through Old French and partly directly from Latin ''pausa''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses ''pausam facere'' “to stop”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius says that Neptune put a stop to the rough waves.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it for the end of life.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of a pause in drinking snow-water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''pause'' is formed from it, partly through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|pause]], halt, [[m|en|cessation]], respite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''pausam facere'', ''pausam dare'': to stop, call a halt (to).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(religion)'' A station at which a procession of [[m|en|Isis]] halted.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Rest.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|tomb]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[expausatus]]

+ * [[pausārius]]

+ * [[pausō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|pause]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}